2025
Handwiring a 36-Key Split, Sculpted Keyboard

The rabbit hole goes deep with split ergonomic keyboards.

2021
Precision Sourdough: A Smart Lid for Your Starter

Taking the guess work out of baking with wild yeast.

2020
Building a Backyard Chicken Coop in the City

Raising pets that poop breakfast.

2019
3D Printed Engagement Ring

A perfectly imperfect expression of commitment.

2018
Monitoring the Fermentation of Sourdough Starter with Computer Vision

Bread is love, bread is life; would it be wrong to call it my wife?

Measuring the Spectral Characteristics of a Light Therapy Lamp

Shining the light of truth on a $70 bulb.

2017
Annealing 3D Printed Plastics: Sous Vide Style

When hobbies combine and engineering takes over.

Battery Power Protection and Regulation PCB

Design of a power management board in Altium.

Overhead Robotic Gantry for Tethered VR Headsets

Tired of cables breaking presence in virtual reality? We are too.

Hakko-Style Solder Fume Extractor

Inhaling 3D printer melted plastic instead of toxic solder fumes.

ESP8266 Sous Vide Controller

Immersing food in a temperature controlled water bath.

2016
Wooden Phone Stand

Turning a hunk of wood into a hunky tech holder.

Making Do With a Bargain Bin Bandsaw

Sometimes you can get more than what you pay for.

Engineer's Diary

Getting into the habit of writing stuff down because I don't trust my memory.

MECH 458: Capstone 3D Optical Well Imager

Integrating computer vision with automated pipeline inspection.

Adjustable Portable Power Supply

Providing power to the people. Or in this case, hobby projects.

MECH 423: Mechatronics Product Design

Over-engineering the soft-boiled egg with the ultimate kitchen gadget, PerfEGGctâ„¢.

2015
Project Haikuza

Contributing to society with an interactive, Twitter-based haiku generator.

Co-op: Air Quality Calibration Chamber

Building a clean-room enclosure for testing air quality monitors.

External Ballistics Simulation

Predicting projectile trajectories of shots, shots, shots, shots, shots, shots.

2014
MECH 328: TrailRider Design Project

Designing a next-generation, offroad wheelchair.

Co-op: Drill Cover User Study

Quantifying the performance of a surgical drill designed for low-resource settings.

Bowling With car2go

Roof-mounted rig for vehicular bowling at the 2014 Vancouver Fringe Festival.

Award Winning Bamboo Bike

An organic, gluten-free mode of transportation.

MATLAB Photo Editing Script

Automagically removing obstructions in an image.

2013
Co-op: The Age Effect on Bicycle Helmets

Assessing the safety of your 15 year-old helmet.

MECH 223: Hovercraft Competition

Racing a remote-controlled hovercraft made of cardboard, plastic bags, and pink foam.

2011
Men in Massage: Research Paper

ENG 112 research paper on gender dominated professions.

2010
LEGO Headphones

Making music with the world's favourite construction toy.

2009
A Minty-Fresh Power Pack

Making a portable battery charger before they were cool.